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" Cancer victimhood contains a permanent temptation to be self-centred and even solipsistic. "

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" I'm not resigned, but I'm realistic too. The statistics in my case are very poor. Not many people come through esophageal cancer and live to talk about it, or not for long. And the other wager is, the part of the wager, it's a certainty you'll have a terrible time and you may wish you were dying because it's an awful process. "

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" I don't think the war in Afghanistan was ruthlessly enough waged. "

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" Nothing could make me forget what the Reagan years had actually been like. "

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" Trust is not the same as faith. A friend is someone you trust. Putting faith in anyone is a mistake. "

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" I used to wish there was a useful term for those of us who thought American power should be used to remove psychopathic dictators. "

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" When I meet people who say - which they do all of the time - 'I must just tell you, my great aunt had cancer of the elbow and the doctors gave her 10 seconds to live, but last I heard she was climbing Mount Everest,' and so forth, I switch off quite early. "

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" When you hear people demanding that the Ten Commandments be displayed in courtrooms and schoolrooms, always be sure to ask which set. It works every time. "

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" I've proved to be as difficult to convert as I am to hypnotize. "

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" I felt Clinton represented the worst of the 1960s. "

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" Millions of people die every day. Everyone's got to go sometime. I've came by this particular tumor honestly. If you smoke, which I did for many years very heavily with occasional interruption, and if you use alcohol, you make yourself a candidate for it in your sixties. "

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" You can only have one aim per debate. "

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" Like the experience of warfare, the endurance of grave or terminal illness involves long periods of tedium and anxiety, punctuated by briefer interludes of stark terror and pain. "

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" The fact is: It's true what they say about the United States. It is a land of opportunity. It is too various to get bored with it. "

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" Henry Kissinger should have the door shut in his face by every decent person and should be shamed, ostracized and excluded. "

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" A lot of people, because of my contempt for the false consolations of religion, think of me as a symbolic public opponent of that in extremis. And sometimes that makes me feel a bit alarmed, to be the repository of other people's hope. "

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" Many parents and teachers have become irritated to the point of distraction at the way the weed-style growth of 'like' has spread through the idiom of the young. And it's true that in some cases the term has become simultaneously a crutch and a tic, driving out the rest of the vocabulary as candy expels vegetables. "

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" I retain what's interesting to me, but I don't have a lot of strategic depth. "

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" Ordinary morality is innate in my view. "

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" I do not believe any of the statistical claims that are made about public opinion. I don't see why anybody does. "

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" I learned that very often the most intolerant and narrow-minded people are the ones who congratulate themselves on their tolerance and open-mindedness. "

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" I have quite a decent constitution in spite of all my abuse of it and my advanced years. I'm still quite robust. "

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" When Caroline Kennedy managed to say 'you know' more than 200 times in an interview with the New York 'Daily News,' and on 130 occasions while talking to 'The New York Times' during her uninspired attempt to become a hereditary senator, she proved, among other things, that she was (a) middle-aged and (b) middle class. "

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" I don't have any terrific self-esteem issues but I do sometimes realise I've been too lucky and that I'm over-praised. It makes me nervous. I have this sense of being overrated. "

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" No school of philosophy has ever solved this question of whether being determines consciousness or the other way around. It may be a false antithesis. "

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" The cause of my life has been to oppose superstition. It's a battle you can't hope to win - it's a battle that's going to go on forever. It's part of the human condition. "

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" The concept of loneliness and exile and self-sufficiency continually bucks me up. "

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" Say 'Toronto' or 'Ontario,' and the immediate thought associations are with a somewhat blander version of North America: a United States with a welfare regime and a more polite street etiquette, and the additionally reassuring visage of Queen Elizabeth on the currency. "

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" I have nowhere claimed nor even implied that unbelief is a guarantee of good conduct or even an indicator of it. "

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" Even with all the advantages of retrospect, and a lot of witnesses dead and gone, you can't make your life look as if you intended it or you were consistent. All you can show is how you dealt with various hands. "

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" The press is still investing itself, it seems to me, in a sort of cynicism. It comes out better for them if they can predict hard times, bogging down, sniping, attrition. "

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